Sweet Cakes

Sweet Cakes specializes in wedding, birthday, shower, and general cakes as well as cakeballs. Cake prices vary depending on size and detail. Cakeballs are $10/dozen for the first 5 dozen and $8/dozen after that. If you are interested in placing an order or have any questions, please email me at ehill4@prodigy.net

Sunday, October 17, 2010

A girl loves her shoes... no matter what her age. I made ruby slippers out of gumpaste for my niece, Zoe's, birthday. I guess she was impressed with their quality because she wanted to wear them. Love this girl!!

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Happy first birthday Isabella! The large cake is a 3-layer vanilla, chocolate, and vanilla with rasberry filling. The "smash" cake is vanilla with buttercream frosting and little fondant ladybugs and royal icing flowers. The ladybug on top of the main cake is made of rice krispie treats and covered with fondant.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Happy 2nd birthday Zoe! A Wizard of Oz themed cake for my niece... white cake with buttercream frosting. The "ruby slippers" are made of gumpaste and the rest of the accents are a fondant/gumpaste blend.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Friday, September 10, 2010

Ahh... I love fall. And what's more fall than pumpkin muffins? Sadly, pumpkin is REALLY hard to find right now. I managed to beg a can off of a friend and had to resort to ordering more off of Amazon. After having one of these for breakfast... totally worth it!

Last week I had a cupcake from a bakery in downtown Chicago. Now, I'm not much of a cake eater anymore (something about mixing excessive amounts of frosting turns me off now), but this cupcake was SO amazing. The frosting was perfect. So I'm now trying to replicate that cupcake. This frosting was definately close. The cake is more milk chocolate-y than the one I had from the bakery, but still pretty tasty if I do say so myself :)

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Saturday, July 24, 2010

I love a wedding, but man are they stressful when you're in charge of the cake! Fortunately it went off without a hitch. Well, there was one scary moment in the car, but it was handled calmly and in the end was fine.

The cake is all white cake with vanilla buttercream frosting and ribbon for the border.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Oh boy. This may be my one and only 3D cake. Despite many dowel rods I feel it still may be sinking. It's 10:30pm... I wish the bday party was right now! I'm afraid of what I will find in the morning. I'll be hoping some guardian angel keeps an eye on this thing tonight!

Friday, June 25, 2010

Friday, June 18, 2010

Butter pecan cake with buttercream frosting and royal icing flowers. If I had a better camera you would see that the flowers have a sparkle to them. Sadly, I do not have this camera so you'll just have to take my word for it ;)

Friday, June 11, 2010

Monday, June 7, 2010

Ok, I know this isn't a cake... but I was browsing some recipe/cooking blogs today and stumbled upon this great site - www.joythebaker.com and her post today was an apricot crostata. Well, I'm not a big apricot fan, but peaches and raspberries were on sale so I thought it was a perfect fit! Now, mine are not as lovely as hers, but they taste great!